The Allen Clarke Memorial Windmill, Blackpool

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The Allen Clarke Memorial Windmill, Blackpool

Image: © Alexander P Kapp Taken: 11 Jun 2007

This windmill was given in 1937 by Cornelius Bagot of Blackpool. To be maintained as a memorial to Allen Clarke, author, journalist & Lancashire dialect story writer who was born in Bolton in 1863 & died in Blackpool in 1935 author of "Windmill Land" "Windmill Land Stories" "Moorlands and Memories" founder of the Lancashire Authors Association and the Blackpool Ramble Club. This is a transcript of the plaque on the side of the windmill

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.798932
Longitude
-2.989852